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Background

I need a VPN server of my own to can get into my home network when away from home. I happen to have a sheevaplug server which should handle running OpenVPN, put the two together and I get my own VPN Server! More background information:

Sheevaplug Info:

• Model: Original Sheevaplug
• Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
• Kernel: 2.6.32-5-kirkwood #1 Mon Oct 3 16:55:04 UTC 2011 armv5tel GNU/Linux

Installation

A simple "sudo apt-get install openvpn" should do the trick.

This article shows how to set up MythTV on a computer running any linux distro that supports MythTV.

Background

This article uses the Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick USB ($20) TV Tuner (see the Setup USB TV Tuner on Linux for more info); however, the content is relatively agnostic in regards to the tuner. I also purchased a RCA ANT751 ($35) outdoor antenna from Amazon and tuned it according to http://antennaweb.org.

I've recently added a  to my  based HMC (home media center).

This article shows how to add a Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick USB TV Tuner to a Neuros (ubuntu based) computer to add Live Over the AIr (OTA) media viewing to a HMC (home media center).

I typically setup and use conky on most of my linux computers. This article show's my typical conky setup along with the items / addons used to achieve the setup. I've also attached my .conkyrc file for reference or use but please note that you may want to adjust it (for example, the keymap list will be useless to you).

The following list represents my "must have" applications on any linux desktop I use, be it RHEL at the office, Crunchbang on the work laptop, or Debian, LMDE, Ubuntu, etc. on various home computers.

Resizing partitions is often a necessary task with any computer. The need may arise for a variety of reasons, from adding or moving disks to shrinking less used partitions and growing more frequently used partitions. Luckily, several commonly available tools (gparted and/or partition magic) make this task easy, even with a complicated disk layout.

I've wrote before about a dmenu - a minimalistic applauncher. This article shows how to add locally installed apps (or apps/commands of any sort) to dmenu. It should also be noted that this article is not necessarily dmenu specific, most applaunchers index binaries (or links to binaries) in common places such as /usr/bin and /usr/lib along with the user's binary location, typically ~/bin. If you do not have a ~/bin directory simply create one.

When mounting a drive via SSHFS (SSH), I've ran into an issue where the directory will mount; however, the mountpoint will be inaccessible. For example, if the /home/user/tmp/tshare directory is owned by user1 and is of the user1 group, you then mount a remote directory to this directory, I get the following results:

I have found several guides to setting up a SSH login without a password (re: passwordless login for ssh) but none seemed to combine all aspects I use so I decided to write my own short guide.

First, the credits (see these sites if you need more info):

The Problem

I ran into an issue with SSH login without a password. I had set up the passwordless SSH login for several uses; however, one user refused to work. After setting up SSH Login Without a Password I was still prompted for a password. The first step was to determine why I was still being challenged for a password and to do this I needed to enable DEBUG output for SSH on the server to see what was going on.